LGBT

See also: lgbt and LGBT+

English
A six-band rainbow flag representing the LGBT community.

Alternative forms

Etymology

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual. From earlier LGB. Attested since 1988. Used as a self-designation in United States gay rights activism since about 1990.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛl d͡ʒiː biː tiː/

Adjective

LGBT

  1. Being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or relating to these groups as a collective.
    • 2010, Geoffrey Nelson; Isaac Prilleltensky, Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being, →ISBN:
      This differential treatment in both the community of culture and mainstream white LGBT community may lead some LGBT people of colour to experience varying degrees of visibility and invisibility within these communities, and their identity as a LGBT person may change depending on the cultural context.
    Synonyms: GBT, GLBT
    Hyponyms: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual

Usage notes
  • Additional letters are sometimes added, such as 'Q' for queer or questioning, 'I' for intersex, 'P' for pansexual, 'A' for asexual, etc.
  • The sequence of the letters is sometimes switched to GLBT.
  • When speaking only of sexuality, but not gender, the abbreviations LGB or GLB may be used.[2]
  • Often the term queer is used as an alternative shorthand for all gender-non-conforming behavior, including homosexuality and bisexuality, but this may be controversial; see the notes there.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Noun

LGBT (plural LGBTs or LGBT)

  1. (chiefly in the plural, nonstandard) A member of the LGBT community.
    • 1999, Global Human Rights Law Collection: Historical texts and materials on human rights‎:
      An applicant may exceptionally be able to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution even if a law criminalizing LGBT is no longer enforced, […]
    • 2016 January 29, Rebekah Herrick, Minorities and Representation in American Politics, CQ Press, →ISBN:
      Further evidence of the political weakness of LGBT is that they are not concentrated enough to be a majority of voters, or even a minority of influence in any state or city.
    • 2013, Michael Shankle, The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health‎:
      In many cities you will find a neighborhood where the population density of LGBT is higher than it is in other parts of the city.
    • 1999, Democracy & Education‎, volume 13:
      Allies can point this out when they discern that a LGBT is being asked to serve in an expert capacity and ask questions like, "How comfortable do you feel being asked to assume the role of representative for all LGBTs?"
    • 2018 Disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly claims ‘the LGBTs’ are trying to rid America of white men Pink News

See also

(LGBT)

References
  1. American Educational Research Association Verlag AERA (1988), “Research, policy and practice: Annual meeting”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎
  2. Katherine Cox, Sexual Orientation, in Death, Dying, and Social Differences (edited by David Oliviere, Barbara Monroe, Sheila Payne, published in 2011), page 197:
    Trans communities
    Although the umbrella term LGBT makes pragmatic sense, there are compelling arguments to treat transgendered people as distinct from LGB communities: gender identity is clearly distinct from sexual identity (Dean et al., 2000) and to conflate the two risks ignoring the particular experiences of this ["trans"] group which is itself heterogeneous, comprising intersex individuals, androgynes, transvestites, and a whole range of others. Transgendered people […] can experience trans-phobia within LGB services and communities[.]

Further reading

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

LGBT

  1. LGBT

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛl.ʒe.be.te/
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

LGBT (invariable)

  1. LGBT; Initialism of lesbiennes, gays, bisexuels, transgenres.

See also

(LGBT)

Indonesian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛlɡeˈbete/

Noun

LGBT (first-person possessive LGBTku, second-person possessive LGBTmu, third-person possessive LGBTnya)

  1. initialism of lesbian, gay, biseksual, dan transgender (“LGBT”).

Further reading

Japanese

Etymology

From English LGBT.

Noun

L(エル)G(ジー)B(ビー)T(ティー) • (eru-jī-bī-tī) 

  1. LGBT
    L(エル)G(ジー)B(ビー)T(ティー)の権(けん)利(り)
    eru-jī-bī-tī no kenri
    LGBT rights

Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English LGBT.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛl ɡjɛ bɛ ˈtɛ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Syllabification: L‧G‧B‧T

Noun

LGBT n (indeclinable)

  1. LGBT

Further reading
  • LGBT in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • LGBT in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Adjective

LGBT

  1. (Latin America) LGBT
    Synonym: (Spain) LGTB

Usage notes

In Latin America "LGBT" is used the same as almost all over the world, but in Spain "LGTB" is used, inverting the letters "B" and "T". In Spain, this applies to all derivatives: LGTBI, LGTBIQ, LGTBfobia, LGTBIfobia, etc.

Turkish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /leɟebete/

Adjective

LGBT

  1. LGBT
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